Freedman believes manufacturers will have to ultimately “go with a metal case” to achieve that ultra-thin form factor they are after. However, the use of metal cases will make ultra-thin notebooks costlier.

A reference to Intel’s CULV (Consumer Ultra Low Voltage) technology – meant for ultra-thin notebooks - in Freedman’s report elucidating the design issues prompted Intel to clarify that the “case design issues reported to be found by an ODM, not consumers, in early production units for ultra-thin laptops have nothing to do with Intel processors whatsoever.”

Freedman had said that some manufacturers are more interested in manufacturing 11-inch and 12-inch netbooks with the Atom processor rather than ultra-thin notebooks with Intel’s CULV technology.

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This article seems inflamitory and pointless. "Intel based thin laptops"? So.... when you stick an intel processor in it the manufacturers design suddenly becomes flawed? This just makes no sense. First, intl doesn't design the actual laptop. there are tons of manufacturers out there. Are you telling me every one of them can't make a piece of plastic that doesn't break? Not to mention after the headline, plastic construction is kind of a footnote. I don't champion intel over amd, so this is not the talk of an intel fanboy, But articles like this have no consumer value other than to drive down sales of someones product. Leave it in the advertising section please.